1. Class01 Course Introduction
MIS 3502, Fall 2016
Jeremy Shafer
Department of MIS
Fox School of Business
Temple University
8/30/2016

2. Agenda Objectives of the course The mechanics of the class (grading)
Value proposition of the course
Hopes and dreams
The approach we’ll take
Getting started…

3. Course Description
In this course students will develop skills needed to solve real-world problems using cloud-based resources. This course aims to equip students with tools to help them translate prototypes into working products, and to prepare students for careers related to application development.
Course Objectives
Two broad objectives exist:
Provide supplemental information that was not feasible to present in MIS3501.
Give students the opportunity to create a working prototype application.

4. The Mechanics Graded Materials Exams (3) 60% Project (1) 30%
Quizzes (8) 10%
Exams will be multiple choice / short answer. Quizzes are intended to reinforce concepts learned in challenges, and also prepare you for the exams.
The project will the primary measure of your technical skill.

5. Value Proposition Founders of Top Unicorn Firms
Uber - Travis Kalanick (UCLA) Computer Engineering
PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX – Elon Musk (Penn, Stanford) Physics and Economics
AirBNB - Nathan Blecharczyk (Harvard) Computer Science
Palantir - Joe Lonsdale (Stanford) Computer Science
Reflections of Former Students
“Thanks for a great semester. I really enjoyed this class. I feel confident enough … that I can go out and actually make things … Without MIS3501 I would've been lost in this class.”
– Andrew Crerand, MIS3502 student

7. Hopes and Dreams (thanks in part to your secret super-power)
Successful IT Career
(thanks in part to your secret super-power)
(as a developer)
( as an Innovator / Entrepreneur )

8. The approach we’ll take…
Server-Side Technology
Mobile Considerations
Client-Side Technology
Project and Presentation
The approach we’ll take…
Javascript
DOM
JQuery
Form Validation
Ajax and JSON
HTML5 APIs
Arrays
PDO
MVC
RWD
Intel XDK
This class will be heavy on exercises. Come to class ready to experiment and work!

9. Getting Started It’s time for a gentle (re)introduction to arrays.
Our objectives
Know what an array is.
Be able to create an array in PHP
Add, change, and delete data from an array.

10. What is an array?
An array is a data type that can contain one or more items called elements. Each element stores a value that you can refer to with an index. The length of the array indicates the number of elements that it contains. In short, an array is a structure that allows us to store multiple pieces of similar data.

11. Creating an array

12. Arrays can store any data type.

13. Arrays of undetermined length

14. Manipulating array contents
How to set a value at a specific index
$letters = array('a', 'b', 'c', 'd'); // a, b, c, d
$letters[0] = 'e'; // e, b, c, d
$letters[3] = 'f'; // e, b, c, f
$letters[5] = 'g'; // e, b, c, f, NULL, g
How to get values from an array
$letters = array('a', 'b', 'c', 'd'); // a, b, c, d
$letter1 = $letters[0]; // $letter1 is 'a'
$letter2 = $letters[1]; // $letter2 is 'b'
$letter4 = $letters[4]; // $letter4 is NULL

15. Deleting Array Elements
Notice that there are two steps here. What are they?

16. Let’s try an exercise